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WGS250H5 Lecture Notes - Egalitarianism, Gender Equality, Classless Society

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26 Jan 2012
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UTM
Department
Women and Gender Studies
Course
WGS250H5
Professor
Bickford

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Topic: ethnographic variation in family life: communal households (tutorial 2) Readings: (t) eleanor b. leacock: women in an egalitarian society. Naskapi of canada : patricia draper, !kung women: contrasts in sexual egalitarianism in foraging and sedentary context . The importance of historical & cross-cultural research to current studies of women in families: cross-cultural research: comparison between different cultures. Huron (specially) and montagnais women seen carrying out generally. Bringing standards of family life from france to canada: 17th c french women were reduced to the status of minors and placed under the control of their husbands and fathers. This was the context of jesuit work amongst the huron and montagnais tribes in canada: women seen as children ; not allowed to vote, own credit cards in their own name. Natural resources like fur (beaver pelts); quebec was a gateway to the north.

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